[AquaticLife] German Blue Ram Breeding
How fortunate for you that the fish chose a rock that you can easily view. The parents may have a hard time guarding the eggs effectively with all the other fish I am seeing in the tank. The other fish may successfully raid the eggs and/or the parents may eat them rather than utilize a lot of energy defending them.
They will hatch within a few days, if they were successfully fertilized. Once they are free swimming they will eat microscopic foods, and may be gradually be weaned to finely ground flake food, and/or newly hatched brine shrimp, and/or a homemade food, of which there are many recipes available. It will be difficult to ensure the fry get enough to eat in a community tank to grow well. Also, there is still the question of defense from the other tank inhabitants.
If you are truly intent on breeding them, and raising the fry with or without the adults, you should set them up in their own tank, maybe a 10 gallon, and let them go at it. Once they have bred, you can watch the interaction, or move the parents back to the main tank.
I am sure there are good articles out there on the breeding and raising of the fry of rams, but cannot quote them for you off hand.
\Steve//
> —–Original Message—– > From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of > David Keymel > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 9:02 PM > To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [AquaticLife] German Blue Ram Breeding > > Hey guys, I know its been a little while since I wrote in. things have > been going very well. I had a crop up of ich recently, but other than > that things have been sailing pretty smooth in the 40 gallon tank. You > may remember that i had a pair of german blue rams. It looks like they > like each other and are breeding. They have covered a small portion of > a slate rock i have in my tank with eggs. they are still going at it > infact. Does anyone have any specific reading material on this whole > process? I would like to know expected incubation periods and such. i > pulled up some general info about how to tell when they may start to > spawn but nothing more detailed. For anyone who would like a look I > setup a webcam. they are tucked in the right side of my tank, and > pretty perfect for the cam. Lights go out at 10 PM est, and come on > again at 10 AM east. > > http://fishcam.thecoderanger.com/ > > Thanks all! > > –Dave >
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